Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) One of the 28 reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India tabled in the West Bengal Assembly by Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta during the extended budget session has revealed a grim picture of the state’s fiscal and revenue deficits during the Mamata Banerjee-led regime.The state leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including the state party president and the Rajya Sabha member, Samik Bhattacharya, has alleged that the previous Mamata Banerjee-l…
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Kolkata, July 26 (IANS) The projected loss in the aftermath of AMPHAN super-cyclone (2020) was presented in an inflated manner by the previous Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government for getting higher central relief financial assistance, said one of 28 reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), that was tabled on the floor of the West Bengal assembly on Saturday, by the state finance minister Swapan Dasgupta.As per the particular CAG report, the projected loss was not only inflat…
Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) West Bengal Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta, a journalist-turned-politician, on Saturday, tabled 28 crucial Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) reports on income and expenditure from the state exchequer during the period from 2021 to 2025 when the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government was in power in the state. Tabling the reports on the last day of the ongoing extended budget session of the House, the state Finance Minister said that since the pre…
Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) The West Bengal Government will be placing the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India on the income and expenditures from the state exchequer on the floor of the Assembly on July 25, which will be the last day of the ongoing extended Budget Session of the House.Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari made an announcement on this count while addressing the floor of the House on Wednesday afternoon while giving his reply on discussions on the budgetary alloc…
Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) The extended Budget Session of the West Bengal Assembly will start from Monday for discussions on the departmental budgets. The session will continue till July 25.The extended session will begin with the ‘mentions phase’, where different legislators will briefly bring urgent local issues, constituency concerns or matters of public importance to the attention of the House.In the concluding part of the first half and the entire second half of the extended session on Monday,…
Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Tuesday announced the formation of a judicial commission to probe the different cases of institutional corruption during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in the state from 2011 to 2026. The Commission will be led by former judge of Calcutta High Court, Justice Biswajit Basu (retired).As per the notification issued from the State Secretariat of Nabanna, an investigation will be conducted into allegations of corrup…
Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) A special nine-day session for discussions on the departmental budget in the state on the floor of the West Bengal Assembly has been convened this month.During the session starting from July 17 and ending on July 25, the budgetary allocation for 13 state government departments will be discussed on the floor of the House.In this special session, the details of departmental budgetary allocations will be placed on the floor of the House by the state ministers incharge of the…
Mumbai, July 10 (IANS) In a scathing observation on the implementation of the flagship Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) in Maharashtra, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has revealed that a staggering 75 per cent of water supply schemes remained incomplete between 2019 and 2024. It further pointed out that poor planning, missing baseline surveys, and rampant project revisions caused the mission’s expenditure to double its initial estimates, skyrocketing to over Rs 26,400 crore.According…
Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) The department-specific white papers to be released by the BJP government under Suvendu Adhikari, focusing on the financial irregularities during the 15-year tenure of the Trinamool Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee from 2011 to 2026, will concentrate on six key areas.The state cabinet has given the nod for the formation of a five-member ministerial committee to oversee the entire process of preparation and publication of the department-wise white papers, with the state fin…
Kolkata, June 25 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled West Bengal government will release white papers on the department-wise financial irregularities during the previous Trinamool Congress-ruled state regime, state finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said on Thursday. In his concluding speech on the discussion on the state budget for the financial year 2026-27, which was presented by him on the floor of the House on June 22, Dasgupta said that the said white papers will explain why the hu…